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Old 04-23-2018, 07:15 PM   #17 (permalink)
hayden55
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Ah true. The engineer in me was counting 38.9% as not 40 so I have a problem with being too literal and arguing oops. Using 6.2lb of gasoline and 33557Wh/gal that works out to 38.9% (not 39.5). I guess my point was everyone has stagnated in the 35-39.9 region for the last 20 years until about 2014 when they started hitting 40s in streetcars and bumping crazy percents every year here recently. I thought you meant they have been breaking 40 for the last decades. Honda got lucky because they could do lean burn to get great numbers on most of their small cars from the 80s-00s and could get them to pass emissions before carb basically outlawed lean burn for their atrocious NOx emissions lol. I'm still skeptical on that Accord hybrid number. They are extremely inefficient to be getting 40%+ thermal efficiency.
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